Chapter 131
[SAMANTHA’s Point of View]
Freezing water splashed on my face, and I thought my heart stopped from the shock and the numbing feeling it left me after the water stung the bare skin of my back.
I huffed. A white cloud emerged from my mouth as I trembled, taking deep breaths. The prison was cold. It was as if it was designed to put powerful wolves into slumber and prevent them from getting out of this freezer-like prison. No silver chains, but the muscles in my body were so stiff and aching that I wasn’t able to move even a few steps away from the wall where I was held by thick ropes that were starting to burn my wrists and ankles.
The water made it hard for me to breathe. I turned around and glared at that person standing behind me with a bucket in her hand. That grin on her face made me want to grab her by the neck and tear a huge chunk of it with my teeth. My nostrils flared with both anger and pain, and my hands curled into fists as snarls reverberated in my throat, grinding my teeth until my gums bled. The metallic taste spread all over my mouth and ran down the side of my lips.
“What are you glaring at, criminal? Are you not satisfied with killing Lena, and now you want to kill me?” Her taunting grin made my blood curdle in anger as I bared my teeth at her and snarled.
“Look what kind of savage she is!” she exclaimed with a dramatic fear as she threw the bucket on the floor and flinched. She couldn’t hide the amusement in her eyes, though. That sickening satisfaction was pasted on her face as she smirked at me. “Now you see what kind of monster she really is! This is what I had been telling all of you! That she’s a beast that is out of control!”
I glared past her and saw some of the elders and members of the council watching me inside the cell like I was some kind of animal in captivity. My chest suddenly hurt when I remembered my children and wondered if they were doing well, if Dominic was doing his best to keep them safe while I was being incarcerated in the dungeons of Silver Crescent.
Dominic was right. It was blackmail. A trap that Olivia and her father planned to capture me and destroy me in front of the people of Silver Crescent. I didn’t see this scenario coming. I thought I had scared her away after so many of her attempts to win my husband back. But my instinct was right. Olivia would never stop until she got what she wanted.
She would never stop until I was dead.
“What do you want, Olivia? Why don’t you just stop!”